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- Jan 26, 2010
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- I'm roomates with Corey Feldman
Processor | W3520 Xeon |
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Motherboard | Asus Sabertooth X58 |
Cooling | Cool it Vantage |
Memory | 6gb Dominators |
Video Card(s) | GTX 460 |
Storage | 60Gb Vertex II 500Gb storage |
Display(s) | LG 42LH40 42" 1080P |
Case | 932 HAF |
Audio Device(s) | Voices in my head |
Power Supply | Raidmax730/ |
Software | Win7Pro64 |
Benchmark Scores | Pretty High one's. but it's not a contest/ I just read them for the articles. |
I'm am long time reader and a first time "poster". I have been climbing the latter on how to properly overclock my computer. Always treading the fine line of stability to performance. On my new build I bought top of the line or close to top of the line everything. Completly new at overclocking I didn't realize the amount of factors their were to tweak and change to obtain a performance boost. But, the one thing I did know is that you don't mess with the PCI setting, or at least never take it past 110. My BIOS lets take it to 160 if I wanted. Uasually my BIOS will turn things red or yellow or purple when I reach a danger zone but it doesn't seem to be worried about my PCIe setting. I have never been able to find anything stating the purpose of leaving that setting alone. So I downloaded AMD's overdrive utility and realized that it was tweaking that setting. So I set it in BIOS and that setting made my system stable? So my question is what is the primary purpose of the PCI setting and does it have a High that will damage any components?